Concept Work – Constructing Frameworks for Folklore Studies Jackson Hardback

Concept WorkConstructing Frameworks for Folklore Studies\nAuthor(s): Jason Baird Jackson\nFormat: Hardback\nPublisher: Indiana University Press, United States\nImprint: Indiana University Press\nISBN-13: 9780253074300, 978-0253074300\nSynopsis\nFolklorists study the richness of customary forms of cultural expression and the everyday social worlds in which all people interact and communicate. They use a range of methods - literary, ethnographic, philological, visual, historical, comparative, artifactual - to engage with and learn from diverse peoples, but they also rely on a stock of key concepts that have grown up within their discipline, including tradition, performance, genre, text, context, community, and identity. But folklorists and their interlocutors live in an ever-changing world in which making sense of new social dynamics requires additional foundational concepts. \n\nIn Concept Work, folklorist and ethnologist Jason Baird Jackson illustrates scholarly concept work in folkl.